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HAY CARRIER. No. 328,802. Patented Oct. 20, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REUBEN C. NORTON, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE UNION FOUNDRY AND MACHINE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

. HAY-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,802, dated October 20, 1885.

Application filed February 26, 1885. Serial N 0. 157,152. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, REUBEN C. NORTON, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Rockford, in the county of Winnebago and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Hay-Carrier, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a class of machines known as hay-carriers, employed in connection with power-forks to unload hay from wagons and deliver it in the place of deposit.

The object of this invention is to produce a reliable carrier at a small cost, capable of use in opposite directions without reversing the carrier on its track-support. To this end I have designed and constructed the apparatus represented in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a carrier embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a lengthwise vertical central section. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section on dotted line X. Fig. 4 is an isonietrical representation of a pivoted lever-pawl, and Fig. 5 is an isometrical representation of a gravity or drop detent.

In the figures, A represents the sheave-supporting beam, having its end portions provided with vertical slots to receive the rope-sheaves B. At C are represented bracket-arms fitted to the sides of the sheave-supporting beams, immediately opposite the rope-sheaves. A suitable screw-bolt is passed through the bracket-arms, the sheave-supporting beam, and rope-sheaves placed therein, and serves to fix the parts securely in place, and in such a manner that the sheaves will be free to rotate on their bolt-supports within the beam.

The extreme ends of the sheave-supporting beam are provided with eye-openings D, to receive the rope passed over the sheaves. The center of the sheave-supporting beam is fitted on its under face with a conic opening, E, and the upper face of the beam is provided with slots F, extending lengthwise thereof, opening into the conic opening. The upper face of the sheave-supporting beam is fitted with uprising ears G, having their upper ends fitted in journal-bearing form.

At H is represented a forked lever-pawl of the peculiar form shown, and is fitted with journals I, projecting from its opposite sides,

which enter the bearings in the upper ends of the ears G in a manner to oscillate therein. The construction of this pawl H and its seat are such as to permit the pawl to be placed in position opposite that shown in the drawings, or in a reverse position.

At K are represented traveling wheels supported to revolve on stud-journals projecting from the inner face of the upper ends of the bracket-arms. At L is represented a trackway consisting of a suitable beam to be supported in position in any suitable manner. This trackway is passed through the carriage between the bracket-arms to receive the traveling wheels on its upper surface in a manner to move endwise on the beam in either direction.

At M is represented a bracket fixed to the under face of the beam constituting the trackway, and operates toengage the hook-arms of the forked lever-pawl to limit the movement of the carriage on the trackway. The bracket M, fixed to the trackway-beam, is produced in socket form, and receives a drop-detent, N, placed within the socket, limited in its descent by shoulders on its sides engaging inward-projecting flanges of the socket. The construction of these parts is such that in the movement of the carriage in the direction of the arrow the forked lever-pawl passing under the drop-detent will cause it to rise, or the forked lever-pawl to tip downward to pass under the drop-detent; or these joint actions of the lever-pawl and the drop-detent will permit the carriage to move under the bracket until the hook-arms ofthe lever-pawl engage the bracket to limit the movement of the carriage, at which point the drop-detent will drop between the forked arms of the lever pawl and operate to hold the carriage locked in connection with the bracket.

At P is represented a sheave supported to revolve in a suitable yoke, provided with guards and a swivel-hook at its lower end. This sheave-y oke is provided with a trip-arm, R, rising from its upper end to enter the conic opening in the sheave-beam to lift the dropdetent.

At S is represented a hoisting-rope passed around the sheave P and through the ropeguards. Its branches are then passed over travel on the trackway in the direction op-h posite to that indicated by the arrow to carry the load of hay suspended on the swivel-hook to the place of deposit, and when depositedthe return movement of the carriage will. again lock it to the stop-bracket in position for another operation.

It will further be seen that if the forked lever-pawl H is reversed from the position shown in the drawing the carriage will be fitted to move on the way in the direction indicated by the arrow opposite to that hereinbefore described, and by knotting the free end of the rope and drawing the knotted end T over the sheaves the carrier will be made to operate in the opposite direction to that I hereinbefore described.

By this construction I produce a carrierl capable of use-in opposite directions without reversing the carriage on the trackway.

1 claim as my invention 1. The combination, with the bracket-stop supporting a drop-detent, of the carriage and its pivoted pawl, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the bracket-stop supporting'a drop-detent, of the carriage and its pivoted lever-pawl, and a trip-arm adapted to raise said detent within the stop, substantially asset forth. a The combination, with the stop and its drop-detent arranged therein, of the carriage formed with an opening, as described, a pivoted lever-pawl, and a trip-arm adapted to project through said opening to raise the detent, substantially as set forth. a

4. The combination, with the stop, within which is supported a drop-detent, of a carriage formed with a conic opening and supporting a lever-pawl adapted to receive the drop-detent, and a trip-arm, substantially as set forth.

REUBEN O. NORTON.

Witnesses:

F. PETERSON, A. O. BEHEL. 

